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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63801	Monthly observations for the preserving of health with a long and comfortable life, in this our pilgrimage on earth; but more particularly for the spring and summer seasons. By Phylotheus Phystologus. With allowance.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing T3186A; ESTC R219418	27,306	103

first spring and rising of the Sun every thing rejoyeth and becomes very flagrant by vertue of the sweet influences of their celestial Body and the power of the Earth 6thly In this Season viz. from Iune to the last of October most sorts of Cattel breed many Diseases first from the heat and gross humid Air which in this Season is more thick sulpherous the pleasant Influences and Spirits of the Air are dull and thick which causes a fainty Indisposition to possess the Bodies and Spirits of most Creatures Men themselves can witness the Truth of this likewise the foods of most Creatures is Grass which is of a phlegmatick Nature generates not only an unfirm Nourishment but fills the Body full of evil Juces for this cause it will not take Salt as at other times of the Year In this Season the weather being hot the Spirits of most Creatures are quickly evaporated by driving and other accidents which most Beasts are subject to especially such as come from remote Parts to great Cities besides it is the time of their uncleanness therefore it was not without great reason and Wisdom that the Antients commanded that Flesh should be eaten sparingly and that there should be a particular care taken about the good state of the Bodies of such Cattel viz. that they were Sound Healthy free from Uncleannesses and Surfits for whatsoever inconveniences attend the Creature before killed the Flesh does still retain and therefore the Eaters thereof cannot but pertake of the evils for the causes before mentioned Flesh in these Months ought to be eaten sparingly is any at all there being many other sorts of Food that do far exceed Flesh and Fish more especially in this Season as Bread Butter Cheese Gruels Pottages of various sorts Eggs Herbs and many others that are after a little use more pleasant healthier generate firmer Nourishment and greater Strength if Sobriety and Temperance were observed and other Circumstances belonging to Health a little Flesh would serve in this Age a man may speak and write of Temperance and an orderly choise of Food which can never be understood nor believed without practising which makes all notions essential few do or can immagine how little and mean things will every way fully contribute to all Natures wants and necessities There are two or three other things which having the oppertunity tho they may seem not so pertinent to the present Subject I would advertise my Country Men of 1. That Diseases are transferred from one to another several ways but especially by lying in Beds with or after Diseased People which all Persons ought to take notice of there being scarce any sort of Learning more necessary and yet none more neglected for these secret conveyances of Vertue and Venome or the transfering of Distempers from one to another is done after an hidden inpreceptible manner by way of Spirits Gleams Rays and Glances the natural Spirits being so subtle and penetrating as they powerfully search into all things so that a Man cannot touch any thing tho it seem never so impassible or hard as Iron Stone or the like but those nimble Scouts do not only penetrate it but are more or less retained in it if this were not so the Dog could not find the Individual Stone his Master throws amongst a Thousand others nor could he follow him unseen by his Foot-stops nor could the deep mouth'd Hounds trace the light heel'd Hare in all her doubles and winding and tho she runs so fast and swift as she scarce seems to touch the surface of the Earth or bend the topes of the Grass over which she mounts yet she leaves such real Effluviums and impressions enough to betray her to those pursuing Enemies Indeed nothing can hold or withstand the natural Spirits they are so thin quick and piercing no Iron Stone or Wood can resist them and if they will incorporate with those hard substances as is most manifest how much more must they be imbib'd by soft Beds where People lye long Warm and Sweating and where the Air cannot come with its refreshing Influences to cleanse purifie those grosser Excrements the Vehicles or Lodging of malignant Spirits that are continually breathed forth by infirm Persons and of all others Feather-Beds are more dispossed to entertain and welcome such unclean fulsome Vapours therefore it concerns all People especially such as are Young to be careful who they lye with or after all Diseases being catching at one time or other moreover hot soft Feather Beds are for the most part in themselves Unwholsome because they keep the Body too hot and infeeble the Loyns whereas hard clean Beds viz. Quilts or Straw or Flock-Beds but especially Straw are much more commendable as to Health 2. The principal Cause that so many Children especially Young Virgins in London and other parts of this Nation are deformed by crooked and disorderly growing is 1st By reason of their hard Swathing in their Infancy for who ever saw a Black who use no such binding Crooked 2dly This is encreased when they grow up by the tyrany of foolish pernicious Fashons over strait Lacings hard Bodies and stiff Stays invented only for Mischief and the consumption of Whale-Bone all which their weak Bones and tender Nerves cannot endure without great prejudice besides it straitens the Breast and the Vessels of the Stomach and lays Foundations for Asthmas Phtysicks shortness of Breath Green sickness and forty other Malladies 3dly When they come to be about six or seven Years old they are generally put to sowing or working of Samplers as they call it where most of them are kept by an Ignorant Impertinent Mistriss as hard to it as if they were to get their Bread before they eat it five six seven or eight hours in a Day are they there keep sitting in a mopish still Posture with their Heads downwards leaning on their Breasts and all their Limbs crumpled up almost like a Hedge-Hoggs This makes many of them dull Sleepy and Heavy all their Life after by that base early contracted Habit others to ease themselves lolling or leaning on one side hold their Necks awry get a trick of lifting up one Shoulder half a Story higher then the other and a Thousand other ridiculous Postures which by time becomes natural and then the Swing is thought of and the Steel-Bodices sent for which certainly concludes the Work renders their Crookedness yet worse and indeed altogether incurable whereas had these Children been Educated with change of Imployments or Learning viz. one hour or an hour and an half to Sew the next to Read or Write or learn Languages after that to play on the Musick Sing or Paint to go in a handsom Posture their Schooling would not only be much more pleasant and delightsome to them but they would be more Airy Brisk and Healthy and learn more in one hour then they do in several Days by being kept thus dully to one thing so long day after day as it were stupifiing there Sences procuring many other Diseases besides Crookedness which is always accompanied with many other inconveniences which all careful prudent Mothers ought to consider and study to prevent 3. The best Exercises that I have observed against Consumptions shortness of Breath and all kind of Obstructions of the Stomach and Breast are those that most Imploy the Arms and open the Chest therefore for Women to rub Tables for one hour every Morning tell they sweat would not be amiss for Men any sort of Labour on the Water but especially Rowing in Boats with Water men does effectually open and remove all Impediments Diseases of the Brest and Stomach at once it strengthens the Muscles and opens the Passages or if any find themselves inclinable to it the Exercise of Shooting at Butts in a long Bow is very commendable such Exercises have cured many Consumptive Asthmatical People when they have been given over by the Doctors for as the walking in proper Airs gets a good Appetite so the drawing the Bow dilates the Breast and removes Obstructions But I have already exceeded the limits I proposed to my self in this Paper Those that shall observe the Rules herein laid down of Temperance choice of Diet due preparation will I am more then confident find great benefit thereby therefore I shall not Trouble my self to make any Apology to any who having their Eyes blinded by the Dust of Custom and Tradition may be apt to condemn or flight these Advices as useless Chymeras sure I am what I have deliver'd is agreeable to undisguised Nature and whosoever shall Act accordingly will find the benefit but without practice all precepts are vain or at least fruitless unless it be to remain as Monuments to reproach those conceited Fools that dispise and neglect them What I have here candidly and in a simple plain familiar manner delivered I leave to Gods Blessing and the practice of all prudent Lovers of their Health and humble Followers of Nature in her easie and Innocent Methods FINIS

is thickened their Spirits dull and impure and each part sympathizing in the Mischief on every petty Accident as Love Hate Fear Anger Grief c. the Spirits being so debilitated are I resently Wounded and all the Salliports of Nature Swells or seems to be Closed which hinders Transpiration and Breathing and then in a moments time they fall into wild agonous Fits and all the parts tremble and are disordered which Diseases Country Women of Exercise that live on mean simple Foods and small Drink are very rarely afflicted with but when I consider how Impurdently most People Live what Disorders they commit how Hetrogenious their Foods and Drinks are together with the many other idle Habits and secret Wounds they give Innocent Nature by visiting too frequently the Shades of Venus which quickly makes the strongest Nerves to Bow and is the chief Cause and Original of most Consumptions especially in the Males I say when we consider all this we need not wonder at the multitude of Torturing Diseases abroad in the World but rather admire People are so Well and Healthful as they appear to be What an Hodg-potch do most that have Abilities make in their Stomachs which must wonderfully oppress and distract Nature For if you should take Flesh of various sorts Fish of as many Cabbages Parsnops Turnops Potatoes Mustard Butter Cheese a Pudden that contains more then ten several Ingredents Tarts Sweet-meats Custards and add to these Churries Plums Currans Apples Capers Olives Anchovies Mangoes Caveare c. and jumble them altogether into one Mass what Eye would not loath what Stomach not abhor such a Gallemaufry yet this is done every Day and counted Gallent Entertainment To teach this mischievous Art Books are Written and to practise it French Cooks are Imployed as if we had not natural Folly and Vanity enough at home but must learn it by Art and from forreign Nations in the mean time how is poor Nature Captivated how doth she Groan in a Language severely to be felt tho not heard Therefore if you would avoid those Torturing Diseases and Inconveniences observe the following Rules always remember that most Distempers are contracted through Excess and inordinate Living nor does any thing preserve the Body in Health or the Mind in perfect Freedom so much as Sobriety and Temperance 1. Let not a little Trouble thwarting your unruly Appetites or fond Humours depraved with ill Customs and Wantonness divert you from getting your selves possest of this Jewel Temperance that true Phylosophers-Stone which turns all into the Golden Elixir of Health Content and Serenity since we see none of the little perishing Goods of this World are to be had or obtained without Trouble and Difficulty 2. Neither Meats nor Drinks are to be taken that are too strong for each Mans particular Nature or Constitution which for the most part are such as are compounded of many Ingredients of contrary qualities but let Nature always be stronger then the Food which will be sure to prevent Surfeits and a Thousand other Inconveniences 3. As you are not to accustom your selves to the frequent eating of Foods that are over Fat for the Reasons aforesaid so neither ought you at any time to Eat or Drink of any thing whatsoever to Dulness especially if compounded with rich Ingredients for the same will certainly sow the Seeds of Grievous Diseases Therefore if any healthy Person feel himself oppressed after Meat he ought to consider the reason thereof and thenceforth make abatement in the quantity or alter the quality do not most People find themselves before Eating and Drinking Quick Lightsome and full of Spirits provided they have not fasted too long but after their Meales because they make them Immoderate they are generally sensible of a cloging Heaviness and dull Indisposition which is a certain Index that the necessity and conveniency of Nature is exceeded either in quantity or quality since the true intention of Food is to Refresh and Support Nature and not to Oppress and Incommode her 4. But the greatest Snare in Eating and Drinking and therefore the Psalmist teaches us to pray That our Tables may not be our Snare is when Meats and Drinks are not Simple but Compounded whereby the liquorish pleasures of the Pallate is prolonged many degrees beyond the necessities of Nature and indeed beyond the concoctive ability of the Stomach whence many People over-charge This whilst wantonly they gratifie That and so heap up Crudities Noxious Juces Torturing Diseases and in the end Death it self 5. Moderate Fasting is an excellent means to preserve both the Body and Mind in Health and Serenity for it cleanseth the Stomach by digesting and removing the Obstructions that lie in the Passages and also purifie the Blood and then how sweet how agreeable is every mean wholsome thing to the well prepared Stomach such sober Persons feel and taste the most pleasant opperation of the divine hand in all things their Bodies are delight ed with that which is Natural Clean and Innocent their Minds satisfied their Beds easie their Sleep Sound they are not subject to dull Indispositions nor molested with Feavours nor are their Stomachs or Bowels oppressed with Fainting Fits or Windy Griping Humours they rise as Early and no less Fresh then the Morning Sun Blyth and Merry as the Lark and are fit for all Exercise either of the Body or the Mind their radical moysture flowes freely through every part like a pleasant gale of Wind over the Sun-parcht Mountains which moderate the central Fires that they burn not violently In a word proper Fasting is the best Physician preserves Health far beyond their Evacuations it has an accult quality for the digestive faculty and natural heat is never Idle therefore when the Stomach and Vessels thereof are not filled with superfluity of Food and often Eatings and Drinkings it draws away all the superfluous matter that furs and stops the Passages and which otherwise is apt to cause Coughs and shortness of Breathing and sends troublesome Fumes and Vapours into the Crown 6. Therefore be careful that you do not Eat or Drink between Meals or before the former Foods and Drinks be perfectly Concocted nothing more obstructs Nature and hurts the Blood keeping the Body as it were in a continual Feavour for the fresh Juces of those too frequent supplies of Foods and Drink do obstruct the Passages and dulls the Spirits that they cannot pass freely in their due order and circulation whence Windiness and Crudities are generated which is the principal cause of the common Indispositions many People are troubled with 7. Foods ill dressed destroys Health especially Flesh whilst some will wantonly eat it half Raw and all Bloody which looks Inhumane and others will have it so over-prepared that no good Nourishment can be drawn from it both which doth generate bad Blood and cause a lumpish heaviness to possess the whole Body because the lively brisk aiery fine Spirit in such Foods is destroyed in the Preparation 8.